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Iran War Day 23: Trump's Hormuz Ultimatum and the Worst Energy Crisis
By Alex Naumov on March 23, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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March 23, 2026 — The Iran war entered a dangerous new phase over the weekend as President Trump issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Iran: reopen the Strait of Hormuz to all vessels or face the destruction of Iran's power plants, starting with the largest. Iran responded by threatening to st …
Iran War Day 21: IMO Safe Corridor, Kuwait Hit Again, Oil $107
By Alex Naumov on March 20, 2026 at 11:37 AM
March 20, 2026 — The Iran war enters its fourth week with a significant institutional escalation: the UN's International Maritime Organization has unanimously called for the creation of a safe maritime corridor to evacuate approximately 20,000 stranded seafarers from the Gulf, followi …
Iran War Day 20: Qatar LNG Hit, Oil at $114, Gulf Ablaze
By Alex Naumov on March 19, 2026 at 10:34 AM
March 19, 2026 — Iran carried out its threatened retaliation overnight, striking energy facilities across Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait in response to Israel's attack on the South Pars gas field. The damage to Qatar's Ras Laffan complex, the world's largest LNG facility, wi …
Iran War Day 19: Israel Strikes South Pars, Iran Threatens Gulf Targets
By Alex Naumov on March 18, 2026 at 9:49 AM
March 18, 2026. In a dramatic escalation of the three-week-old conflict, Israeli forces struck Iran's South Pars gas field overnight, the largest natural gas reserve on Earth, prompting Tehran to issue evacuation warnings for energy facilities across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar t …
Strait of Hormuz Crisis Day 18: Zero Transits, Carriers Reroute to Cape
By Alex Naumov on March 17, 2026 at 12:50 PM
March 17, 2026 — A tanker was struck by an unknown projectile near Fujairah overnight, drone attacks set UAE oil facilities ablaze, and European allies rejected President Trump's calls for a naval coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict is now entering its third week wi …
Iran War Shipping Week 3: 1,000 Ships Stranded, Oil Hits $105
By Alex Naumov on March 16, 2026 at 9:20 AM
The Iran-US-Israel conflict enters its third week with approximately 1,000 ocean-going ships and 20,000 sailors stranded in the Arabian Gulf unable to transit the Strait of Hormuz, while the International Maritime Organization reports approximately 3,000 commercial ships remain within …
Iran War Day 13: Gulf Under Wave of Attacks — What It Means for Shipping
By Alex Naumov on March 13, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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Day 13 of the Iran war has brought an escalation at sea, in the air, and at major Gulf ports. New leadership in Tehran has publicly committed to keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed, more ships were struck overnight in Iraqi territorial waters and off the UAE coast, U.S. forces are con …
Global Shipping Disruption: How the Iran Conflict Is Reshaping Routes
By Alex Naumov on March 12, 2026 at 9:47 AM
The new conflict centered on Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Middle East into one of the most acute maritime crises since the first Red Sea attacks in late 2023. For vehicle shippers, this is already resulting in longer routings, higher surcharges, growing container …
Iran War Shipping Day 12: 3 Ships Hit in Hormuz, IEA 400M Release
By Alex Naumov on March 11, 2026 at 8:39 AM
The Iran conflict escalated sharply on Day 12, with three commercial vessels attacked in or near the Strait of Hormuz in one of the heaviest days of maritime strikes since the war began. The International Energy Agency responded by announcing the largest coordinated release of emergen …
Iran War Shipping Day 11
By Alex Naumov on March 10, 2026 at 7:47 AM
The Iran conflict entered its eleventh day on March 10, 2026, marked by extraordinary oil market volatility, diplomatic signals of potential de-escalation, and continued paralysis of commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. For vehicle shippers and logistics planners, the con …